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eureka

intj
/jəˈɹiː.kə/UK/jʊˈɹiː.kə/US

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first person singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”). Archimedes supposedly exclaimed this when he figured out how to determine the density of an object. First use appears c. 1603 in a text by Philemon Holland.

  1. derived from εὕρηκα — “I have found”

Definitions

  1. An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery.

    • Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess.
    • "Eureka!" he cried, his teeth shining through his beard. "Gentlemen, you may congratulate me and we may congratulate each other. The problem is solved."
    • A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody.

  2. Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”).

  3. A locality in the Byron council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A rural locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.

    2. A small suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

    3. A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

    4. A small research base in Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region,…

      A small research base in Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.

    5. A settlement in Waikato district, Waikato region, New Zealand.

    6. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

      • Before dawn this morning, five of us drove into Eureka.

    7. A given name, like for the protagonists of Eureka's Castle or Eureka Seven.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA